The court considered whether inadequacy of reasons given by a tribunal for it’s decision was a legal error.
Held: There will be few cases where it will not be possible, where the reasons are inadequate, to say one way or another whether the tribunal has gone wrong in law. In some cases the absence of any reasons would indicate that the tribunal had never properly considered the matter (and it must be part of the obligation in law to consider the matter properly) and that the proper thought processes have not been gone through. The failure to give reasons was itself an error in law.
Judges:
Woolf LJ
Citations:
[1982] 1 All ER 498
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Administrative
Updated: 21 July 2022; Ref: scu.180403
